‘Once a soldier, always a soldier’

Robert has called Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation home for his entire life. A Tribal Liaison with Enbridge and a Veteran, Robert has been part of the White Earth Honor Guard since the mid-1990s. “There’s a special place in Native culture for warriors, and the willingness to defend and protect people. It’s always been intriguing to me,” he says. “All of our soldiers, men and women, give everybody a right to have their own feelings and their own voice and freedoms.”